It was a split decision in the capital city as Mary-Ann Baldwin, Jonathan Melton and Corey Branch retained their seats while Stormie Forte successfully moves from District D to an at-large seat. Countering them will be Mary Black-Branch, Megan Patton, Jane Harrison and Christina Jones. With the absence of a sixth district, I expect a lot of deadlocks over the next two years.
Under the old system, only Harrison and Jones would have avoided runoffs.
I'm pretty upset that the only non-duopoly leftist (Josh Bradley) finished dead last and only had support from Revolution Raleigh, Socialist Alternative NC Triangle and Raleigh DSA. I noticed that both Indyweek and the N&O supported most of the sitting members. Meanwhile, there was a Green turned Vote Blue No Matter Who popping off his mouth while saying nothing about either of Bradley's runs (he also finished third in the 2019 District A race).
